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The official account for the Cockrell School of Engineering @UTAustin. Innovation starts here 🤘
Austin, Texas
Joined February 2011
Texas is buzzing with news of the new Autry C. Stephens Engineering Discovery Building! Read all about it, and learn more about the man behind the building here: https://t.co/DC9X8lA9we. See coverage here: https://t.co/ozC6sGgAK7! Renderings credit of CO Architects.
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🤘 Today, Distinguished Mechanical Engineer Chris Pappas will be inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame alongside his brother, Harris Pappas. The two are co-founders of the Houston-based Pappas Restaurants, Inc. 🥘 🍽️ 🫑 🦐 🥩 🥗 Read more here: https://t.co/ud3epgcZbY.
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Horns up for the 15 outstanding doctoral students here at UT Austin who were just named Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows! Read more about the program and Ph.D. fellows here: https://t.co/vh78tt09Cr 📸: Andrew Carr
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Congratulations to @Weixin_Guan and Yaxuan Zhao, graduate researchers with the Texas Materials Institute and @utmechengr at the @CockrellSchool for winning both the @InventorsHOF Collegiate Inventors Competition® graduates championship and People’s Choice Award! Learn more about
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A team of engineers from The University of Texas at Austin has been named one of five graduate finalists in the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition
The votes have been tallied and the 2025 Collegiate Inventors Competition People’s Choice and Graduate Winner is AirGel from @UTAustin! #CIC2025
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They're rooting for you tho 💌 Don't forget your assignment due this week, you got this!
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We're still in our semiconductor era ⚡ So are students in ECE 440, a semiconductor manufacturing lab course that gives Texas Engineers hands-on experience building modern microchips. Experience The Life of a Texas Engineer in the semiconductor lab: https://t.co/0gWyeutOsL
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Can we get a hook 'em? 🤘 The U.S. News & World Report ranks our undergraduate engineering program No. 11 in the nation, with three programs ranked in the top five, eight in the top 10 and all programs in the top 15. Go Texas Engineers! Read here: https://t.co/hHTMEhgwtR
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We're booked and busy for #NationalReadaBookDay 📚 When our faculty members aren't reading the latest scientific journal or researching, they like to curl up with a good book. So, why not have Texas Engineers recommend great reads for fellow engineers? https://t.co/oNTYy8gtgi
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What if a poem could outlive humanity? 🧬 That's precisely what poet Christian Bök and Texas Engineer Lydia Contreras set out to do and succeeded. Together, they made science into an art that will live forever. Learn more here: https://t.co/QoKPYCPLPP
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Only 24 days until the first day of classes — we're excited to see you, Texas Engineers 🤘
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From Peru to Texas, Luz Vargas has done it all 🇵🇪🤘 This Peru's Independence Day, we're sharing Luz's story, a journey that blends cultural advocacy, engineering, entrepreneurship and global collaboration. https://t.co/7IXsItHZqG
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In the high-altitude villages of Peru, where the air is thin and the mountains stand as silent sentinels, a quiet battle is underway. It’s a fight not for land or resources, but for the survival of a...
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UT Austin’s FLARE-X team is advancing in the $5M @xprize Wildfire competition! Led by @CockrellSchool & @txgeosciences, the team is using AI-powered drones to autonomously detect & suppress wildfires—within minutes. Innovation that could change the world. Read more:
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How we're showing up to watch "Jurassic World: Rebirth" this week 🦖 Somehow, life, uh, finds a way on Forty Acres when all the students are gone. In 2018, @UTAustin students took on the ultimate challenge of building life-sized animatronic velociraptors for the play Enron.
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Have you had any water today? No, no, no. Don't scroll past this 👀 Luckily, Texas Engineers (@UTAerospace) have designed a new non-invasive wearable sensor that measures your hydration levels.
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Texas Engineers 🤝 Portugal Coming together for nearly two decades to solve significant challenges. Learn how the @UTPortugal program is tackling the world's most challenging problems, such as sustainable energy, discovering critical materials and more: https://t.co/iJfTaYEiz1
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What if your heart scan results were ready in minutes—not days? 🫀 @CockrellSchool engineers built an AI tool that interprets echocardiograms faster than ever before. Read more:
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Texas Engineers worked with researchers from Yale School of Medicine to develop an AI-enabled tool that can read echocardiograms.
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Congrats to the new 2025–26 Research Leaders Academy cohort 🎉 Fifteen fellows from 10 UT Austin colleges and schools will work with the Office of the Vice President for Research to develop large-scale research visions, secure external support and lead interdisciplinary teams.
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Congratulations to @CockrellSchool's Dr. Guihua Yu, awarded @SuqiaUAE's @mbrwateraward for his solar-powered water innovations! 🌞💧 🔗 Learn More: https://t.co/77iiIdhoHq.
@UTexasResearch @UTAustinProvost @utmechengr @UT_YuGroup
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Nicholas Peppas receives the Kabiller Prize for groundbreaking work in biomaterials and drug delivery. His research at @CockrellSchool has transformed targeted therapies and made oral treatments possible for millions.
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